J.S. Bach: Six Partitas, BWV 825-830 Robert Levin

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825:
• 1Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: I. Praeludium01:46
• 2Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: II. Allemande03:11
• 3Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: III. Corrente02:49
• 4Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: IV. Sarabande04:16
• 5Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: V. Menuet 101:19
• 6Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: VI. Menuet 201:59
• 7Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: VII. Giga02:12
• Partita in C Minor, BWV 826:
• 8Partita in C Minor, BWV 826: I. Sinfonia04:05
• 9Partita in C Minor, BWV 826: II. Allemande04:06
• 10Partita in C Minor, BWV 826: III. Courante02:07
• 11Partita in C Minor, BWV 826: IV. Sarabande02:58
• 12Partita in C Minor, BWV 826: V. Rondo01:32
• 13Partita in C Minor, BWV 826: VI. Capriccio03:41
• Partita in A Minor, BWV 827:
• 14Partita in A Minor, BWV 827: I. Fantasia01:51
• 15Partita in A Minor, BWV 827: II. Allemande02:28
• 16Partita in A Minor, BWV 827: III. Corrente02:47
• 17Partita in A Minor, BWV 827: IV. Sarabande02:55
• 18Partita in A Minor, BWV 827: V. Burlesca02:07
• 19Partita in A Minor, BWV 827: VI. Scherzo01:16
• 20Partita in A Minor, BWV 827: VII. Gigue03:12
• 21Partita in A Minor, BWV 827: VII. Gigue (2nd part with F)03:11
• Partita in D Major, BWV 828:
• 22Partita in D Major, BWV 828: I. Ouverture05:34
• 23Partita in D Major, BWV 828: II. Allemande07:24
• 24Partita in D Major, BWV 828: III. Courante03:28
• 25Partita in D Major, BWV 828: IV. Aria02:10
• 26Partita in D Major, BWV 828: V. Sarabande05:06
• 27Partita in D Major, BWV 828: VI. Menuet01:18
• 28Partita in D Major, BWV 828: VII. Gigue03:54
• Partita in G Major, BWV 829:
• 29Partita in G Major, BWV 829: I. Praeambulum02:23
• 30Partita in G Major, BWV 829: II. Allemande03:35
• 31Partita in G Major, BWV 829: III. Corrente01:44
• 32Partita in G Major, BWV 829: IV. Sarabande03:23
• 33Partita in G Major, BWV 829: V. Tempo di minuetto02:06
• 34Partita in G Major, BWV 829: VI. Passepied01:39
• 35Partita in G Major, BWV 829: VII. Gigue03:47
• Partita in E Minor, BWV 830:
• 36Partita in E Minor, BWV 830: I. Toccata06:33
• 37Partita in E Minor, BWV 830: II. Allemanda02:49
• 38Partita in E Minor, BWV 830: III. Corrente04:57
• 39Partita in E Minor, BWV 830: IV. Air01:26
• 40Partita in E Minor, BWV 830: V. Sarabande05:02
• 41Partita in E Minor, BWV 830: VI. Tempo di gavotta01:58
• 42Partita in E Minor, BWV 830: VII. Gigue05:26
• 43Partita in E Minor, BWV 830: VI. Tempo di Gavotta alio modo (triplet execution)01:55
• 44Partita in E Minor, BWV 830: VII. Gigue alio modo (triplet execution)05:21
• Total Runtime02:18:46

Info for J.S. Bach: Six Partitas, BWV 825-830

Robert Levin's view of music is multiple. It is at the same time that of a performer, but also of a researcher, a teacher and a composer. He invites us to rediscover Bach's Partitas.

Levin’s recording of Bach’s Six Partitas is way of perfect, yet at the same time old fashioned. Levin’s performances are intellectual and rigorous, form and structure being more important than rhetoric and emotions.

Robert Levin, piano

Robert Levin
Pianist and Conductor Robert Levin has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia. His solo engagements include the orchestras of Atlanta, Berlin, Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Montreal, Utah and Vienna on the Steinway with such conductors as Semyon Bychkov, James Conlon, Bernard Haitink, Sir Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle and Esa-Pekka Salonen. On period pianos he has appeared with the Academy of Ancient Music, English Baroque Soloists, Handel & Haydn Society, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Christopher Hogwood, Sir Charles Mackerras, Nicholas McGegan, and Sir Roger Norrington.

Renowned for his improvised embellishments and cadenzas in Classical period repertoire, Robert Levin has made recordings for DG Archiv, CRI, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, ECM, New York Philomusica, Nonesuch, Philips and SONY Classical. These include a Mozart concerto cycle for Decca; a Beethoven concerto cycle for DG Archiv (including the world premiere recording of Beethoven’s arrangement of the Fourth Concerto for piano and string quintet); and the complete Bach harpsichord concertos with Helmuth Rilling, as well as the six English Suites (on piano) and both books of the Well-Tempered Clavier (on five keyboard instruments) as part of Hänssler’s 172-CD Edition Bachakademie. ECM will be releasing his traversal of the Mozart piano sonatas on Mozart’s piano. He is a regular partner of cellist Steven Isserlis, with whom he recorded the complete piano and cello music of Beethoven, and pianist Ya-Fei Chuang, with whom he appears in recital and with orchestra. Earlier this year he toured Europe and the United States with violinist Hilary Hahn.

A passionate advocate of new music, Robert Levin has commissioned and premiered a large number of works. He has recorded the complete piano music of Dutilleux for ECM and joined pianist Ursula Oppens in a CD of Bernard Rands’ piano music for Bridge. A renowned chamber musician, his completions of Mozart fragments are published by Bärenreiter, Breitkopf & Härtel, Carus, Peters, and Wiener Urtext Edition, and recorded and performed throughout the world.

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